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Islamabad: 5 women buried alive in name of honour

Islamabad: 5 women buried alive in name of honour

ISLAMABAD: Threeteenagegirls along with their two close elderly relatives were shot at before being buriedalive in a desert of Balochistan by their tribesmen in the name of honour. The shocking reports of this horrible incident reaching the capital from different quarters revealed that the girls studying in classes 10 to 12 intended to marry men of their choice through a civilcourt by defying the centuries-old tribal traditions.

When the fuming elders of Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls to appear before a localcourt, they picked them up from their homes along with two of their elderly women relatives. The crying girls were pushed into official cars and driven to a desertedarea. There they were pushed out of the cars, made to stand in a queue and volleys of shotsfired at them.

As the bleeding girls fell on the sand, the tribesmendragged them into a nearby ditch and levelled it with earth and stones before the girls could breathe their last. As the two shocked elderly women tried to rescue the hapless girls, they too were gunneddown and buried in the same manner.

The killers after burying these women returned to their tribe like conquerors without any action against them. The step taken was to send a loud message to the rest of the tribe’s girls. Father of these girlslodged an FIR with the police against his own brother, who was said to be the architect of this crime. But after some family pressure, he withdrew the case and so the blood of those girls was forgiven in the name of centuries-old tradition, which does not allow any girl of the tribe to contract marriage of her choice.

Meanwhile, the Human Rights Watch has accusedAbdulSattarUmrani, the younger brother of PPPHousingMinister in BalochistanGovernmentMirSadiqUmrani, of being directly responsible for this shocking act of barbarianism.

The HousingMinister, MirMohammadSadiqUmrani, confirmed to The News on phone that this was true that three girls and two other women were buried alive by men of the Umrani clan. But he strongly denied that his brother had to do anything with this act. He claimed that these girls were actually buried alive by their uncle — SardarFatehMohammadUmrani — against whom even an FIR was lodged with the local police. But the FIR was later withdrawn by the father of these girls, after he was put under pressure by those who had buried his daughters alive in the desert.

He said the allegedkillerSardarFatehMohammad was his political enemy since1985 and his brother AbdulSattarUmrani was being maligned only to settle political scores otherwise everybody knew in the area as to who had buried the women alive in the desert.